Software in vehicles should be two things:Open - let lots of folk see what could be wrong
this is actually interesting. we have this bunch of computer wunder-childs purchasing cars with software they can't even look at. software that their lives might depend on some day, if not every day.
overall i'd expect safety to increase dramatically if there was a requirement to ship/provide code for any non-entertainment stuff in a car (or any other transportation vehicle).
i mean, woz hopefully has some steam left to look at these things, and even if not so, it should b enough for him to point out a suspicious subroutine for hundreds of great experts to look at it, which toyota or any other manufacturer could never achieve with the current model, even if they wanted to
it's a bit more than "kicked a dog". let's say, burned pigeons live in their parents fireplace, with exits covered by grates. or hung cats, while skinning them live. and yes, that really has happened here recently. let's say, that could have been your cat. while i do believe people like those deserve the same done to them (and as many times as they have), i'm seriously opposed to public registers like that. it won't help with the matter, other solutions must be found.
what about encrypting the uploaded data with a public key ?
this system can be made a great annoyance to crack. unfortunately, it will also mean a huge annoyance to those who purchase it, so direct customers again will be hurt the most.
3. an audit was conducted on the local irs (vid) it systems by kmpg and ernst & young, totalling at 1 million lats (~ 2 million usd);
4. data leaked includes full wage information on majority of companies in latvia.
a lot of factors are being disputed (like auditors disclaiming any liability). as for (potential) damage to honest businesses :
1. full information on wages makes businesses more vulnerable to talent stealing, finding targets for bribes etc;
2. biggest message to take home is "you can't trust state organisations even a bit". the same organisation (local irs, vid) few years ago was illegally wiretapping calls of a local journalist (they have a branch with enforcing/investigating capabilities). now, of course, most people and businesses do not have much choice but to deal with oversized, ineffective and massively corrupted instances.
and recently they have started taking fingerprints from _everybody_ ("new order" to get a passport). we probably should have no illusions about who will get the fingerprint db first - random hackers or organised crime.
i'm a bit older than you, and i surely do remember "old times".
but i surely won't argue about restricting places for the young people. what i would argue for, deposits. they deposit a value that covers biggest damage they could do to the place in a single run, and live with it. i would be pretty much happy with such a system in my time, actually. i had very little income, but then i saw people open bath/guest house to visitors only to get fireplace glass getting smashed that cost ~$(usd)500 - and their revenue for the evening was ~$240. not a way to make some money. so deposit $1000, get it back at the end. whatever, borrow it from your parents who will probably not be excited about writing that amount off for their spoiled brat. i'm somewhat reminded about a couple of songs:) http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ramones/beatonthebrat.html http://www.lyricstime.com/sham-69-hey-little-rich-boy-lyrics.html
match the european drinking age (more or less 18), and for the majority 20-21 will result in reasonably responsibility when driving.
of course, make sure to actually enforce this, and please... get rid of the persons who create movies/tv series where a teen drinks single beer and acts like destroying at least 5 liters.
this is coming from a person from a country that has fucked up massively (yeah, we voted for greedy thieves for a couple of decades as soon as we got a chance), has now one of the biggest external debts in % and pretty much no way out of the bottom of the toilet.
but boy, usa has way more fucked up healthcare system. this is coming from latvia, with reductions in healthcare system financing, closings of hospitals, strikes of medical personnel.
it's better to be in what most of usa residents consider 3rd world country with fucked up economics than being in the world's 1st country with fucked up healthcare system.
>I don't pay for air and I don't buy bottled water, I'm not going to pay for codecs.
So does this mean you have no VHSes or or miniDVs
no, and no
or CDs
yes, although absolute majority of them are from winning a contest or gifts. some are purchased on market at nineties, and i'm not sure whether they are counterfeit or "special editions" for this market (ex-ussr)
or DVDs in your house? No MPEG2 or 4 televisions/cable boxes/dishes? No V.92 or DSL or DOCSIS modems?
no, no, no, no, no, no. did i count that correctly ?:)
i do have some 3+ computers (some are a bit outdated, so not really counted in, and one laptop my gf has from her job), a couple of tvs, although one broke a few months ago and i haven't bothered to take it in for repairs. and yes, i am running linux for rest of the machines...
They all use codecs and/or licensed formats.
I'm all for the concept of liberated software, but there is such a thing as being borderline conspiracist (like Alex Jones of infowars.org), and making a big deal over nothing. The IEEE, ISO, and MPEG groups do license the codecs they develop, but only for the benefit of human beings (so there's a single standardized format), not to get rich.
i'm sorry, that made me go blink-blink-blink. what benefit ? i'm sorry, wuahahhaaha. no, really, trust me - there is no benefit to human beings, really. it's all for profit.
larger models are fairly good at having generic, reusable parts. technic series usually excels at that as well (at any size).
but then a store here had large discount on last christmas for legos (40% ? don't recall for sure), so i grabbed a bunch of packages they still had left. one of them was a small motorbike. only when i opened it, i noticed that all of the bike body was single molded plastic. internal "frame", wheel attachments and everything was another part. i'll admit that was a disappointing model:)
ahh, and then there are those bionicle or qhatever series (based on some media stuff ?) - they look pretty crap from reusability viewpoint.
that's an interesting idea, actually - i suspect that could be done by javascript then ? thanks, i'll try to test this theory, if it indeed is some other method causing this, i'll scream at webapp developers instead;)
it is... if i configure it that way. if i have it set to most aggressive caching and have option "always reload https pages" switched off, i want the damn software to obey the configuration. if it's not, i'm annoyed.
hmm. it's ctrl+shift-click in opera, that i'm very used to. given that ctrl and shift ar one above the other on most keyboards (yeah, i know smaller laptops like eees have it a bit different), that's hardly an issue.
as an opera user since versions... hard to recall, but version 5 was definitely my primary browser - i have two large issues with opera right now:)
1. i can't add a field in ui that would take value entered, add it to an url and open that url in a new tab. that's very limiting - bet i could get is to open that url in a new tab...
2. i just can't force it to NOT reload https pages when navigating back. i've set the maximal caching settings i could ever find, but it's still RELOADING THE DAMN PAGES. hey, opera engineers, wtf with this one ? or the above one, for that matter... i've posted on opera forums about both issues, no resolution.
don't misunderstand me, still loving opera and using any other browser very, very rarely:)
yes, completely agreed. it's so stupid. i mean, governments all over the world have been so reasonable - there are no censorship attempts at all, flying is very pleasant, we haven't heard about any torturing taking place for centuries. now, just now, because of this action people will turn against any free speech attempts and governments will have to take the only legitimate choice left to them - revoke all the free speech that's currently freely available, install cameras - first on streets, then in pubs, then in homes - because you can never be sure where a freespeecher-childpornographer is ! fear. blame. be a good citizen.
have you tried to report a problem that's not "change the oil" to a dealership ?
we reported to a dealer that right rear wheel smelled like burning rubber after driving longer distances (some 5-10 kms). actually, it was a toyota as well (corolla). smelling was similar to what i had experienced before when handbrake got stuck and heated the wheel to the point when tires started smelling.
they tried to fix the problem 3 times, never found the cause.
a week ago my gf took bmw for service and reported that some plastic part has loosened a bit at the bottom of the car. she took it back, and accidentally i looked underneath the car. it was still hanging there. they did not fix it.
car dealerships/services are no better at fixing things than computer shops. maybe worse.
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an ex-ussr european here. do the two parties in usa _actually_ differ ?
one seems to be a communist part no. 1, and it is pushing for more milk to workers in dangerous conditions.
second one is a communist party no. 2 and advocates increasing the wine dosage for those who donate blood.
and they are identical in every other way.
Software in vehicles should be two things:Open - let lots of folk see what could be wrong
this is actually interesting. we have this bunch of computer wunder-childs purchasing cars with software they can't even look at. software that their lives might depend on some day, if not every day.
overall i'd expect safety to increase dramatically if there was a requirement to ship/provide code for any non-entertainment stuff in a car (or any other transportation vehicle).
i mean, woz hopefully has some steam left to look at these things, and even if not so, it should b enough for him to point out a suspicious subroutine for hundreds of great experts to look at it, which toyota or any other manufacturer could never achieve with the current model, even if they wanted to
that was probably software qa engineer who had reproduced an error and simply wanted debugging instructions.
on the other hand, talking about reproduction, that also sounds like aiming for a darwinaward.
it's a bit more than "kicked a dog". let's say, burned pigeons live in their parents fireplace, with exits covered by grates. or hung cats, while skinning them live. and yes, that really has happened here recently. let's say, that could have been your cat.
while i do believe people like those deserve the same done to them (and as many times as they have), i'm seriously opposed to public registers like that. it won't help with the matter, other solutions must be found.
what about encrypting the uploaded data with a public key ?
this system can be made a great annoyance to crack. unfortunately, it will also mean a huge annoyance to those who purchase it, so direct customers again will be hurt the most.
for the record, from the currently publicly available information.
1. information was obtained from a very simple and (supposedly) obvious software vulnerability;
2. software in question was developed by exigen services latvia (http://www.exigenservices.lv/);
3. an audit was conducted on the local irs (vid) it systems by kmpg and ernst & young, totalling at 1 million lats (~ 2 million usd);
4. data leaked includes full wage information on majority of companies in latvia.
a lot of factors are being disputed (like auditors disclaiming any liability). as for (potential) damage to honest businesses :
1. full information on wages makes businesses more vulnerable to talent stealing, finding targets for bribes etc;
2. biggest message to take home is "you can't trust state organisations even a bit". the same organisation (local irs, vid) few years ago was illegally wiretapping calls of a local journalist (they have a branch with enforcing/investigating capabilities). now, of course, most people and businesses do not have much choice but to deal with oversized, ineffective and massively corrupted instances.
and recently they have started taking fingerprints from _everybody_ ("new order" to get a passport). we probably should have no illusions about who will get the fingerprint db first - random hackers or organised crime.
can we finally get names of the persons looking at these kids naked/drugged/whatever ?
i mean... i'd surely consider accidentally tripping next to them and completely accidentally hitting them every time i pass them.
i'm a bit older than you, and i surely do remember "old times".
but i surely won't argue about restricting places for the young people. what i would argue for, deposits. they deposit a value that covers biggest damage they could do to the place in a single run, and live with it. i would be pretty much happy with such a system in my time, actually. :)
i had very little income, but then i saw people open bath/guest house to visitors only to get fireplace glass getting smashed that cost ~$(usd)500 - and their revenue for the evening was ~$240. not a way to make some money. so deposit $1000, get it back at the end. whatever, borrow it from your parents who will probably not be excited about writing that amount off for their spoiled brat. i'm somewhat reminded about a couple of songs
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ramones/beatonthebrat.html
http://www.lyricstime.com/sham-69-hey-little-rich-boy-lyrics.html
match the european drinking age (more or less 18), and for the majority 20-21 will result in reasonably responsibility when driving.
of course, make sure to actually enforce this, and please... get rid of the persons who create movies/tv series where a teen drinks single beer and acts like destroying at least 5 liters.
This bar is for 14 year olds pretending to be 18.
i'm sorry... i'm not planning to visit usa because of fingerprinting requirements... but just in case, could you list the bars ? just in case.
a pretty much... great advice. no, seriously.
this is coming from a person from a country that has fucked up massively (yeah, we voted for greedy thieves for a couple of decades as soon as we got a chance), has now one of the biggest external debts in % and pretty much no way out of the bottom of the toilet.
but boy, usa has way more fucked up healthcare system. this is coming from latvia, with reductions in healthcare system financing, closings of hospitals, strikes of medical personnel.
it's better to be in what most of usa residents consider 3rd world country with fucked up economics than being in the world's 1st country with fucked up healthcare system.
let's see...
>I don't pay for air and I don't buy bottled water, I'm not going to pay for codecs.
So does this mean you have no VHSes or or miniDVs
no, and no
or CDs
yes, although absolute majority of them are from winning a contest or gifts. some are purchased on market at nineties, and i'm not sure whether they are counterfeit or "special editions" for this market (ex-ussr)
or DVDs in your house? No MPEG2 or 4 televisions/cable boxes/dishes? No V.92 or DSL or DOCSIS modems?
no, no, no, no, no, no. did i count that correctly ? :)
i do have some 3+ computers (some are a bit outdated, so not really counted in, and one laptop my gf has from her job), a couple of tvs, although one broke a few months ago and i haven't bothered to take it in for repairs. and yes, i am running linux for rest of the machines...
They all use codecs and/or licensed formats.
I'm all for the concept of liberated software, but there is such a thing as being borderline conspiracist (like Alex Jones of infowars.org), and making a big deal over nothing. The IEEE, ISO, and MPEG groups do license the codecs they develop, but only for the benefit of human beings (so there's a single standardized format), not to get rich.
i'm sorry, that made me go blink-blink-blink. what benefit ? i'm sorry, wuahahhaaha. no, really, trust me - there is no benefit to human beings, really. it's all for profit.
ok, i get it. you got me, this can't be serious :)
and their choice of chromium was even more stupid because of an already existing game with such a name.
larger models are fairly good at having generic, reusable parts. technic series usually excels at that as well (at any size).
but then a store here had large discount on last christmas for legos (40% ? don't recall for sure), so i grabbed a bunch of packages they still had left. one of them was a small motorbike. :)
only when i opened it, i noticed that all of the bike body was single molded plastic. internal "frame", wheel attachments and everything was another part. i'll admit that was a disappointing model
ahh, and then there are those bionicle or qhatever series (based on some media stuff ?) - they look pretty crap from reusability viewpoint.
no linux version, and when i last tried it, did not work in wine (launched, but was pretty much unusable).
a shame, really. would be cute if their software was like their bricks - not bricked, but open for tinkering :)
that's an interesting idea, actually - i suspect that could be done by javascript then ? ;)
thanks, i'll try to test this theory, if it indeed is some other method causing this, i'll scream at webapp developers instead
it is... if i configure it that way. if i have it set to most aggressive caching and have option "always reload https pages" switched off, i want the damn software to obey the configuration. if it's not, i'm annoyed.
for the record, 10.10 resizes the area when decreasing it vertically, but not when increasing.
hmm. it's ctrl+shift-click in opera, that i'm very used to. given that ctrl and shift ar one above the other on most keyboards (yeah, i know smaller laptops like eees have it a bit different), that's hardly an issue.
as an opera user since versions... hard to recall, but version 5 was definitely my primary browser - i have two large issues with opera right now :)
1. i can't add a field in ui that would take value entered, add it to an url and open that url in a new tab. that's very limiting - bet i could get is to open that url in a new tab...
2. i just can't force it to NOT reload https pages when navigating back. i've set the maximal caching settings i could ever find, but it's still RELOADING THE DAMN PAGES. hey, opera engineers, wtf with this one ? or the above one, for that matter... i've posted on opera forums about both issues, no resolution.
don't misunderstand me, still loving opera and using any other browser very, very rarely :)
yes, completely agreed. it's so stupid. i mean, governments all over the world have been so reasonable - there are no censorship attempts at all, flying is very pleasant, we haven't heard about any torturing taking place for centuries.
now, just now, because of this action people will turn against any free speech attempts and governments will have to take the only legitimate choice left to them - revoke all the free speech that's currently freely available, install cameras - first on streets, then in pubs, then in homes - because you can never be sure where a freespeecher-childpornographer is !
fear. blame. be a good citizen.
erm. what about nazi symbols ? i think germany has more censorship than some of its neighbours...
oh my. it would be SO awesome if new york times would print this, uncensored, as a response :)
working with kernel devs is rumoured to be suited for people with masochistic desires anyway ;)
more seriously, i hope both sides can come to an agreement and get good code upstream.
have you tried to report a problem that's not "change the oil" to a dealership ?
we reported to a dealer that right rear wheel smelled like burning rubber after driving longer distances (some 5-10 kms). actually, it was a toyota as well (corolla). smelling was similar to what i had experienced before when handbrake got stuck and heated the wheel to the point when tires started smelling.
they tried to fix the problem 3 times, never found the cause.
a week ago my gf took bmw for service and reported that some plastic part has loosened a bit at the bottom of the car. she took it back, and accidentally i looked underneath the car. it was still hanging there. they did not fix it.
car dealerships/services are no better at fixing things than computer shops. maybe worse.
one of us must be bad at reading skills.
"cruise control set at 50-mph"